Overview of the wreckage at the Desert One base in Iran.
Where? In the embassy? At the Pentagon? In the desert? In the newsroom??
Overview of the wreckage at the Desert One base in Iran.
I would certainly want to know if the Entebbe operation was talked about at the time of planning this Eagle Claw.
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I hope that your professor actually was there, Danae — if so, it will have been an amazing experience for you to meet a real piece of history.
That said, it is also *just possible* that he might not have been there: so-called “Stolen Valor” is not an unknown thing, particularly when it comes to well-known military events.
My thoughts are that you should trust, but verify and ask lots and lots of good, detailed questions. If you do, you won’t be sorry either way.
The word at the time was that the failure of the mission was due to micro-management by Carter (”After all, I AM a nuclear engineer !”). Instead of being planned, staffed and run by military men, it was done out of the White House - as I understand it.
Ask your prof if he thinks that was true.
Photo of USS Pueblo still in N Korea:
Photos of the USS Liberty after being "abandoned" by LBJ:
The fatal flaw according to both the aircraft commander and the ground commander was the Marine helicopter pilots that the army was forced to use Beckwith had succeeded in canning the navy pilots but they were only replaced by Marines.
I never heard of AMU, but after reading your note and visiting their website. Im now thinking about working on the Graduate Certificate in World War II Studies. Would you provide the name of the instructor? I’ve had history instructors who thought they knew everything about Viet Nam, but when corrected by someone who was actually there, they disliked having their bubbles burst.
Thanks.
I never heard of AMU, but after reading your note and visiting their website. Im now thinking about working on the Graduate Certificate in World War II Studies. Would you provide the name of the instructor? I’ve had history instructors who thought they knew everything about Viet Nam, but when corrected by someone who was actually there, they disliked having their bubbles burst.
Thanks.
I never heard of AMU, but after reading your note and visiting their website. Im now thinking about working on the Graduate Certificate in World War II Studies. Would you provide the name of the instructor? I’ve had history instructors who thought they knew everything about Viet Nam, but when corrected by someone who was actually there, they disliked having their bubbles burst.
Thanks.
He must have been one of the first Delta Force guys.
Hey, any of you folks who want me to, I will pass on any messages you want to reach the Professor.
Send me a FR mail and I will get it done!
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Tell your prof I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Charging Charlie on day and that I am very proud of the men who went to Desert 1 and consider it a great honor to have shook hands with many of them.
I remember it vividly. When the news hit, it marked Carter’s defeat in the presidential election. What a grotesque failure.
Wow, turned out to be quite a thread.
I remember news/reading about that mission.
Do you also know of a mission in ‘79, also Iran, put together by Ross Perot? Two of his EDS employees were taken hostage and he hired Col Bull Simons to put together the rescue mission. Perot didn’t stay behind either.
I have a question to ask your professor. Ask him why he is a poser and lying? He was not at Desert One nor was he involved with the mission in any aspect. I have researched his name in the records I have and have saw research conducted by professional writers who also disprove his claim to have been there. At the back of the book Crippled Eagle, by Rod Lenahan, is a list of those participants and his name is not there. I was there and knew noone by the name Steve Bacon.
